Each week I listen to hours of speeches and videos. My mind is filled with useless garbage from the audio and visual assaults that I endure for my audience weekly. This week, I heard the words “We the People” repeatedly. The president of these United States, for the first time in one of his speeches,...

Less oil, less pollution, just less. We are told green energy is the direction we need to go. We need solar panels, wind power, battery power. But why? So far, it has mostly been a failure, yet we keep throwing money at it. Your money and my money. If we have a viable way to use alternative energy, I’m...

I have been hearing it for weeks now: guns this, guns that. Those nasty guns. And who needs more than 10 bullets to hit a deer? Then “the left” starts with the automatic weapons. Who needs an automatic weapon? Why do we need guns? Let’s apply some common sense. Let’s stop the hysteria and get...

Once again, we had another fiscal emergency. Well, THEY had a self-made emergency. Yes, our federal government, our legislators, the ones who created this “fiscal cliff” mess in the first place and had more than two years to work toward a resolution, decided to wait until the last minute and act...

It’s the day before the holiest day in the lives of football freaks and parade aficionados alike – New Year’s. The Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade usher in a new year of – well, wait, let’s finish 2012. I don’t want to get ahead of myself. By the end of 2012, I will have completed almost...

I thought I would change up my normal rant and rave at the “other side” this week, since my weekly piece falls on Christmas Eve. You know that whole peace-and-goodwill-toward-men thing? The disdain and hatred that have built up between parties and social groups is really frightening. We are Americans...

In this episode: A motorcycle crash claims the life of a 20-year-old Newhall man; Bowman High School students learn first hand the dangers of reckless driving during a staged event Thursday morning. Also: Castaic Lake Water Agency officials OK a resolution to buy Valencia Water Company; Hart District...

Hart district board members unanimously approved Joe Messina as their new school board president with a 5-0 vote Wednesday, said outgoing board President Gloria Mercado-Fortine. Messina talked about some of his goals and challenges facing the Santa Clarita Valley’s 23-000 students junior high and high...

Is nothing sacred to the progressives – or as I like to say, the “lefties?” It’s as though anything that has a symbolic, historical or sacred value to the “Bible-thumping, right-wing, gun-toting Americans” – or as the left calls them, “wackos” – is a challenge and must...

There is a war on Christmas. No, really. Every year around September or October, we start to hear about the Christmas (holiday) programs at our schools, or the Christmas displays at our city halls and community centers. And every year the “anti”-Christ-anything people come out of the woodwork. Recently...